Sir Alexander Mackenzie and Lewis & Clark explored the Oregon territory. Marcus Whitman and his wife and Narcissa were early settlers that were killed by native Americans who blamed them for the measles outbreak.
Oregon, California, parts of Montana. There's some other state, though, that I don't recall...
There were five states that formed from the Oregon country...
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana.
It started in Missouri and passed through what is now Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, ending in Idaho, Oregon and Washington---known at the time as "Oregon Country.The states didn't pass through the Oregon Trail, but the trail went through the states.
It took about $600.00 in their time... So you had to be VERY rich to go on the Oregon Trail.
No one "invented" it. It was a route settlers took to go to Oregon.
They wanted to go to get gold.
Because the Mormons used the Oregon trail as far as it went in the direction they wanted to go. The Oregon trail was a well-established trail that had plenty of good drinking water all along the way. From Nebraska to Wyoming, the Oregon trail was the best route. The Mormon trail turns south in Wyoming and enters Utah, while the Oregon trail continues on to Oregon.
It started in Missouri and passed through what is now Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming, ending in Idaho, Oregon and Washington---known at the time as "Oregon Country.The states didn't pass through the Oregon Trail, but the trail went through the states.
The Oregon Trail started in Missouri then ended in Oregon.
Yes. It passes through Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Idaho, and Oregon.
The Tamiami Trail is contained entirely in Florida.
To Oregon, California, and Washington
The Oregon Trail was a way for migrants to go westward to receive land (cheap land, courtesy of the government, called the Homestead Act.) The journey on the Oregon Trail was made on covered wagons during the Westward Expansion time period. The Oregon Trail was only one of many trails to the Western United States.
It took about $600.00 in their time... So you had to be VERY rich to go on the Oregon Trail.
No one "invented" it. It was a route settlers took to go to Oregon.
the trail leading to California the trail leading to California
They went so they could go for new land.
The Santa Fe Trail started in Missouri, and went through Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, to Santa Fe, New Mexico.
They wanted to go to get gold.